Which two data sources are used with a visualization tool such as Grafana? (Choose two.)

Question

Options

• AMicrosoft Power BI
• BKibana
• CInfluxDB
• DElasticsearch
• ETableau

• A
  4% (1)
• C
  92% (23)
• E
  4% (1)

Explanation

InfluxDB (C) and Elasticsearch (D) are correct because they are data sources - backend storage systems that Grafana queries to retrieve and visualize data. InfluxDB is a time-series database commonly used for infrastructure metrics, while Elasticsearch is a search and analytics engine frequently used for logs and event data; both have native Grafana integrations.

The distractors - Power BI (A), Kibana (B), and Tableau (E) - are all visualization tools themselves, not data sources. They sit at the same layer as Grafana in the stack, meaning they consume data rather than store it. Kibana is particularly tricky because it does use Elasticsearch under the hood, but Kibana itself is the visualization frontend, not the data source.

Memory tip: Ask yourself "does this store data, or does it display data?" Grafana needs something that stores data to connect to. If the option is a dashboard/BI tool (Power BI, Tableau, Kibana), it's a display tool like Grafana - not a source for it.

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